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PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER CONTRACT WITH THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND REHABILITATION SERVICES.
Presented by: Tom Pletcher, Clinical Director, COMCARE.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the agreement and authorize the Chairman to sign.
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Background: The Participating Community Mental Health Center Consolidated Contract is the primary funding contract for COMCARE from the State of Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The contract establishes COMCARE as a participating community mental health center (CMHC), and also designates it as the mental health authority for Sedgwick County. The agreement describes the responsibilities, compensation amounts, and the necessary services COMCARE must provide as a participating mental health center. These services include case management, attendant care, psychosocial rehabilitation, and an array of crisis services, which COMCARE must make available to adults with a severe and persistent mental illness, and to children with a serious emotional disturbance. The contract also includes performance outcomes COMCARE must achieve through its community mental health services. The total compensation for fiscal year 2012 remains the same as 2011. This agreement is also the mechanism through which COMCARE receives Federal Block Grant dollars and Family Centered System of Care Funds, which are also vital to COMCAREs ability to provide necessary mental health services.
Changes to this year's contract include language added by SRS requiring that faith-based organizations be given an equal opportunity to provide any subcontracted services. They have also stipulated that services should be supportive of healthy fatherhood in order to positively engage fathers in the lives of their children. An outcome has been added measuring the per capita number of admissions to state mental health hospitals and residential facilities, as well as another outcome measuring re-admissions to inpatient settings ...
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